Originally posted 2012-12-21 06:00:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Originally posted March 30, 2012. The Second Circuit, just yesterday (March 29, 2012) has issued an opinion called Louis Vuitton v. Ly USA, Inc. (08-4483-cv(L)) sure to bring joy to the hearts of trademark counterfeiting enforcers everywhere. This was one of those major counterfeiting-ring busts, and…
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a sophisticated cybercrime that targets businesses and individuals performing legitimate transfer-of-funds requests. Attackers employ tactics such as email spoofing, phishing, and social engineering to impersonate trusted entities—like executives, vendors, or legal representatives—to deceive victims into transferring money or sensitive information. Common BEC Techniques Email Spoofing: Crafting emails that appear to…
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Medistry, the .med registry with a really strange business model, is looking to normalize its practices and start competing with the cluster of healthcare-related gTLDs already on the market. The gTLD launched in 2016 and had almost 42,000 domains under management at the last count, which may sound like a pretty decent showing for a…
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Plaintiff sued TikTok and Meta after other users on those platforms incorporated clips from her video into their own posts, allegedly without her permission. She claimed this was copyright infringement and also alleged that TikTok failed to protect her from harassment by users in the comments of her live videos. Plaintiff filed the lawsuit on…
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This is a Meta pixels case agains the G6 hotel chain (a/k/a Motel 6). G6 sought to arbitrate the case per its TOS. G6 presented the court with a screenshot of Motel 6’s standard account creation process: G6 added the red box for the court. This screenshot looks like a standard sign-in-wrap with a good…
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Originally posted 2009-03-19 15:28:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter “Google makes money not by reason of the nature of the keyword, but by someone clicking on the keyword,†Google lawyer Alexandra Neri told a 15-judge panel of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg today. “The decision to click or not to click belongs…
Verisign’s .com returned to growth in the first quarter after the company offered its registrars marketing programs that substantially discounted the retail price of domains. The company ended the quarter with 169.8 million .com and .net domains under management, a 777,000-name increase on the end of 2024. It’s the first time it’s reported quarterly DUM…
In May, the Internet Law Center announced a somewhat bittersweet milestone — our first retirement. “After fifteen years of helping this firm as a legal assistant with a specialty in trademark filings, Raun MacKinnon Burnham has taken her final bow.” Sadly, Raun’s retirement was cut short by a terminal diagnosis of neuroendocrine cancer this past…
This case involves the JustAnswer service, which ensnares possibly unsuspecting consumers into an auto-renewal that consumers allegedly don’t want. JustAnswers’ TOS formation process was rejected in the California state courts. It fares no better in federal court. Important nomenclature note: the panel repeatedly refers to the call-to-action as an “advisal.” The Berman opinion also used…
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